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Closely related to other art forms such as architecture and painting, theater and stage design, and with literary models in poetry and philosophy, the art of the garden has bequeathed us incomparable masterpieces. Gardens, like every other artistic expression, are representative of civilizations and their cultures and, in particular, of their way of experiencing and depicting nature. This book looks at the garden in the West, from the fourteenth century to the present day, as an art form, an expression of the taste of societies and individuals, focusing in particular on the key moments in its artistic development through the most important and interesting creations. In view of the close relationship between the garden and the other visual arts, each chapter also examines the changes in ways of representing, and hence of perceiving, the garden, with a section analyzing the various techniques used to depict it: from late-medieval illustrations to the bird's-eye view of the Baroque period, down to the use of photography in the twentieth century. Richly illustrated with photographs, paintings and illuminated manuscripts, The Garden in Art takes a fresh look at the garden as the space in which the individual can express himself and establish his own relation with the natural world.
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